Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
Robin Hobb
2010, 474 pages
Genre: Fantasy
“The queen dragon was blue and silver and blue again, depending on how the sunlight struck her. She was easily three times the size of the young dragons hatching. She dropped the limp deer that hung from her jaw. Eat, she instructed the young dragons.”
But the queen dragon disappears shortly after the dragons emerge from their cocoons, and they cannot hunt for themselves. The Rain Wilds Council hires hunters to feed them, but game becomes scarce after several years. Fearing what hungry dragons would do, the council devises a plan to move the dragons. Outcast youngsters are recruited as dragon keepers and will travel with the dragons to their ancestral home. A self-appointed dragon expert will also go with the dragons up the river. The journey will be difficult, with no promise of return.
This is their story.
Another imaginative fantasy by the author of the “Tawny Man” series. Book two, “Dragon Haven,” was released this month.
Sandi Lee
Adult services manager
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